AngularJS - Computation-Heavy Tasks

Question

Is there a pattern in Angular apps for computation-heavy tasks? (Beyond just using $timeout with a delay of 0 to let them get off the call stack?) Even using $timeout seems to make the UI unresponsive when the processing itself kicks in. Do I need to be looking at Web Workers or something like that, or is there an "Angular way?"

Answer 1

Because JavaScript is single threaded, you need to either do the computations server-side, or do the timeouts in between the processing (See underscore's defer(), http://underscorejs.org/#defer). Otherwise, the UI will inevitably get blocked.